These
truths, out of the ground; will be flying
to the highest pinnacle in the mind of the saved.

The
Truth Cast to the Ground

Daniel8:12 - "And
it cast down the truth to the ground."

Long centuries before it happened, the
prophet Daniel saw powerful men burying the truth from
God in the ground. There was a time, in the Middle
Ages, when still the printed Bible was not available
to common people, and the religious rulers at the time
took advantage of their ignorance to formulate a set
of dogmas more in tune with their own traditions. These
traditions modified the core of beliefs of the Christian
Church quite different than it was in the Apostolic
Church.

The following list contains some of the
biblical truths that were cast to the ground, obscured,
or replaced by traditional beliefs:

After Christ shed His blood and gave
His life to rescue the human race from death, He entered
the Sanctuary in heaven as the Anointed High Priest
to minister, to those coming to God through Him, the
benefits of His sacrifice: forgiveness of sins, continual
intercession, merciful reconciliation, and the overflowing
grace of restoration. "For there is one God, and
one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
1 Tim. 2:5. Man has no merits for any of these favors;
only the merits of Christ's atoning blood could change
man lost condition and implant in his heart the hope
of salvation. Through the mediation of this High Priest,
Jesus, any human being can obtain mercy, forgiveness,
and salvation. "Let us therefore come boldly unto
the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and
find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:16. "For
there is none other name under heaven giving among
men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12.

Human replacement: A body of human priests
making people believe that they have divine powers
to forgive sins.

Truth #2. - The worship of images is
idolatry. "Thou shall not make unto thee any graven
image... Thou shall not bow down thyself to them: for
I the Lord thy God am a jealous God..." Exo. 20:4,
5. Worshiping images, pieces of wood, stone or metal
is a clear indication of one having rejected the Mighty
Creator for the unwise choice of worshiping created
objects.

Human replacement: At the beginning of
the Middle Ages, when Constantine granted legal status
to the Christian Church and the idolatrous pagans came
in, they let them worship their images. In the church,
by 375 AD, it was allowed the veneration of angels
and dead saints; and by 786 AD, they could worship
the image of the apostles, Mary, and the cross. To
do this, the second commandment of the Law of God was
not included in the prescribed Catechism, and the last
commandment was divided in two to complete the ten.

Truth #3. - The Sabbath of the Lord.
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy..." Exo.
20:8-11. The seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday) was set
apart, sanctified by God after the six days of creation.
It was given to Adam and Eve to rest on it, and to
worship the Creator of all things, forever. Gen.
2:2, 3. No excuses, with His own finger God wrote it
on stone for all mankind, as the fourth commandment.

Human replacement: The pagans came into
the Christian Church worshiping the Sun on the first
day of the week. Their influence tilted the opinion
of the powers that be. And the teaching came forth
this way: "We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because
the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from
Saturday to Sunday." Peter Geiermann, The
Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50.

Truth #4. - Man is mortal. Adam became
a living soul after God formed his body from the dust
of the ground and blew the spark of life into his
nostrils. Gen. 2:7. Only God is immortal and the source
of life. 1 Tim. 1:17. God gave Adam reasoning powers,
the freedom of choice and a clear understanding of
his human nature. In case Adam would brake the vows
between creature and the Creator, what will happen
to him? God said: "But of the tree of good and
evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou surely die." Gen. 2:17.
The day they disobeyed and followed the Deceiver, the
garment of light that was covering their bodies disappeared
in a second. Gen. 3:7. And when the vitality in the
cells of their bodies wore out they came back to the
dust of the ground. "For the living know that
they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither
have they any more a reward; for the memory of them
is forgotten..." Ecc. 9:5,6. When Adam is resurrected
at the Second Coming of Christ, he doesn't know what
happened in the world since he died. We are supposed
to tell him!

Human Replacement: The spirited soul
is alive somewhere. This idea was taken from the voice
that said: "Ye shall not surely die." Gen.
3:4. The serpent was the medium used by Lucifer to
seduce Eve; and that lie, the greatest lie ever to
befoul mankind has found acceptance in a great number
of persons who now believe in the immortality of the
soul. For them, the dead ones are still living outside
the body. Thank God, that picture is not in the Bible.

Truth #5. - God is Love. "For God
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life." John 3:16. The loving
character of God is revealed by His Law, the Ten Commandments.
It is the law of love, liberty and peace. The entire
universe of un-fallen beings serve God with love and
devotion; only much of the inhabitants of planet Earth
have chosen to follow the principles of the prince
of this world, that it is to serve self above everything
else. Under the rule of free choice, everyone decides
whom to worship and obey; but have in mind that this
life on earth is the probationary time, allowed by
God, to become a child of His Kingdom, or to seal the
fatal destiny with the prince of death. Divine justice
prescribes total destruction of the rebels in the lake
of fire at the time the earth is purified. Rev. 20:14,
15.

Human Replacement: The doctrine of eternal
torment: burning souls for millions of years. That
doctrine has been devised to change God's character,
to make Him a tyrant. Those who have filled their minds
with the terror of that outcome, sometimes have applied
the terror of the flames to persons who do not believe
the same. Such mind set is feeding the terrorist behavior
of the last days.

Truth #6. - Baptism by immersion. "One
baptism." Ephesians 4:5. When Jesus was 30 years old,
He left the carpenter shop and went to be baptized
by John in the Jordan river: to begin the ministry
of the Messiah, to fulfill the time of the prophecy,
as an example to all of us, and to fulfill all righteousness.
"And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway
out of the water: and, lo, the heaven were opened unto
him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a
dove, and lighting upon him." Matt. 3:16. At that moment
the Holy Spirit descended to anoint Him to begin the
3½ years the Messiah, in person, will be confirming
the covenant with the house of Israel, according to
the prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27. That was precisely
483 years from the decree given by King Artaxerses
to restore and build Jerusalem in 457 BC. At that moment
the three members of the Godhead were together when
the voice of the Father from heaven said: "This is
my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." Matt. 3:17.

Baptism is a sign of conversion. The
believer is publicly announcing he is repenting and
dying to his past life of sin and rebellion; and now
he is taking a new life in Christ. "Therefore
we are buried with him by baptism into death: that
like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness
of life." Rom. 6:4. Through baptism we are added
to the body of Christ--His church on earth. If you
want to be certain, look for the church of the last
days, the remnant church. "Here is the patience
of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments
of God, and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:6-12.

Human Replacement: Invalid forms of baptism:
sprinkling, pouring, etc. The baptism of infants is
also invalid because the child does not understand
the meaning of baptism, repentance and conversion.
If you find yourself suffering a health condition,
like the thief on the cross, unable to go down into
the baptismal pool, trust in Jesus, He did it for you.
The promise to Abraham is for you too. "And if ye be
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according
to the promise." Gal. 3:27-29.

Truth #7. - The Truth is in the Word
of God. "The words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit, and they are life." John 6:63. "All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness." 2 Tim. 3:16. "Thy word
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Psalm
119:105. The Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, commonly
called The Bible, it is an unique composition of 66
books written by the prophets and messengers of God
during a period of 1,600 years. In it the Holy Spirit
guided the mind of the writers to reveal the Messiah
to come, within the 39 books of the OT, and in the
NT to confirm the salvation provided to all people
by the blood of the Lamb of God.

Without the Bible man could not know
the truth of what happened on earth six thousands years
ago and in the following centuries. With the Bible
man can know what will happen on earth a thousand years
from now. No other book is like the Bible. It is the
unique exposition of God's plan to save mankind. It
is the truth from God for everybody.

Human Replacement: Traditions and fictional
theories. The stores are full of books to distract
the mind with human philosophies and speculations which
would dry out any desire to drink from the fountain
of life.

Truth #8. - Salvation by the grace of
God and faith in Christ. Salvation is freely available
to all men by the grace of God through faith in the
atoning blood of Christ, who substituted Himself for
each one of us. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." (Ephesians
2:8) Because God has given each person the choice to accept
or to reject that saving grace, only those who accept the divine
gift of God's grace, those who accept Christ as their personal
savior are showing in their lives, words and deeds the fruits
of conversion and of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Their
names are written in heaven's Book of Life.

Human Replacement: Tradition has found
the way to perpetuate among the different cultures
of the world rituals and religious ceremonies which
are harmful to the body and do not save anyone.

Truth #9. - "A bishop then must be blameless,
the husband of one wife..." 1Tim. 3:2.

Human Replacement: Early in the Middle
Ages the hard yoke of celibacy was adopted upon the
priesthood disregarding the biblical counsel.

Truth #10. - Christ is the Head of the
Church. "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church; and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt.
16:18. What was the rock? Christ is the rock, as Peter
made the confession: "Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God." Matt. 16:16. Christ is the immovable
rock, "petra." "And did all drink the same spiritual
drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed
them: and that Rock was Christ." 1 Cor. 10:4.

Human Replacement: That Peter "petros"
a movable stone is the head of the church.

These ten truths, among others, were
cast to the ground during the "dark ages" of
earth history, according to the prophecy of Daniel
8:12.

One more great delusion incubated in the Middle
Ages. When Martin Luther and the reformers were pointing the
finger of prophecy to the Papacy, declaring that he was the
antichrist and the little horn of Daniel 7:8, one Jesuit priest,
Francisco Ribera (1557-1591) came forward and developed a futuristic
interpretation of prophecy to deviate those accusations from
the head of the Papal system. Another Jesuit priest, Luis de
Alcazar, (1554-1613) developed the preterist interpretation,
placing Nero as the antichrist. For the futuristic, Ribera
took the last week of the seventy-weeks prophecy in Daniel
9 and moved it to the future. In Ribera interpretation the
Jews are rebuilding the temple and allowing a vile antichrist
in the middle of a great tribulation. The seven years will
begin with the secret rapture of the elect, so none of them
will have to suffer the scourge of the last plagues. The ones
left on earth will have a second chance to be accepted in Christ
kingdom at the end of the seven years.

But there is a problem, those scenarios are
not in the Bible; the preterist and the futuristic theories
were fabricated to save the Papacy of being the antichrist.
The seventy-weeks is a block of 490 years without any gap within
the years, given to the Jewish nation to fulfill its role of
presenting the Messiah to the world. They began with "the
command to restore and to build Jerusalem" given by King
Artaxerxes in 457 BC, (Daniel 9:25) and ended in 34 AD. The
last week was fulfilled in history between 27 and 34 AD with
the death and resurrection of Christ in the middle of the week. "Messiah
be cut off... in the midst of the week." (Daniel 9:26-27)

History follows the prophecies of the Bible one
by one till our days: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
the seventy weeks and the Jewish nation, the antichrist of
the Middle Ages and his barbaric Inquisition. All of those
are in the past. Today, there is one political superpower,
the United States of America; and one religious superpower,
the revived Papacy. Those two are the main actors of the final
drama, and are in the Bible. (Revelation 13) The actual State
of Israel is not on the main focus of prophecy for the last
days.

From Revelation 13:12-17 you can extract many
changes to the rights and freedoms of the people, when religious
laws are added to regulate behavior and conduct, and to satisfy
the cry of the majority.

The meaning of these verses becomes clear when
taken in consideration:

1. God's warning to those worshiping
the beast and the image of the beast. (Revelation 14:9-11)

2. The illicit relation between the religious powers and
the political powers in the last days: Mystery, Babylon
the Great, which makes drunk the inhabitants of the earth
with the wine of her fornication. (Rev. 17:1-6)

3. The disdain to God's law, the Ten Commandments. While
God ask His children to remember the seventh-day Sabbath
to keep it holy, (Exodus 20:8-11) the popular cry of the
world is for Sunday worship in open defiance to Almighty
Creator. (Genesis 2:2-3) The argument to be decided on
Armageddon.

4. Coming to the seventh plague, three unclean spirits
like frogs, "For they are the spirits of devils, working
miracles," (Rev. 16:14) They jump out to go and gather
the kings of the earth for the battle of Armageddon. The
result of the battle on Revelation 19:11-21.

It has been, and more lately, a massive system of false
prophecy coming out of the mouth of the dragon, the mouth of
the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (Rev.
16:13) Millions of people are now deceived by the false teaching
of a secret rapture, the seven-year tribulation, the rebuilding
of the temple, the future antichrist, and a Middle East Armageddon;
all part of "the wine" of Babylon.

On the other hand it is the three angels message to guide
the people to God's truth. (Rev. 14:6-12) Once the Sunday-Saturday
dispute is spread out; once satan deceives the world appearing
as if he were Christ (2 Corinthians 11:14); once no more repentant
sinners give their lives to the Savior, then Christ stands
up in the Judgment with the final verdict (Rev. 22:11) and
salvation closes its doors forever. The names of the saved
are sealed in the book of life to be rapture on Christ Second
Coming. (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17) The great tribulation begins
with the first plague of Revelation 16 upon those who worshiped
the beast and his image, whose names are not in the Lamb's
book of life. (Rev. 21:27)

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with
him, and he with me." (Rev. 3:20)

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's
seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians
3:28-29) Jew or Gentile, all are welcome to come to Christ.

"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Rev. 18:4)

The people waiting for Christ, "Here is the patience
of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of
God, and the faith of Jesus." (Rev. 14:12) The Israel
of God to be taken to heaven by Christ at the Second Coming.
It is your life, don't delay.